Vladimir Pletser
![Vladimir Pletser in free-float during parabolic flights aboard the NASA DC9/30 in October 1995.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Photo_VP_in_PF_DC9_in_1995.jpg)
He is an expert in microgravity during aircraft parabolic flights for which he holds a world record. He is known as ‘Mister Parabolic Flights’, ‘Mister Parabolas’, ‘Homo Parabolicus’ or ‘Mister Microgravity’.
An astronaut candidate for Belgium since 1991, he spent two months in training in 1995 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Selected by the Mars Society in 2001, he participated in three international campaigns of crewed Mars mission simulations. Provided by Wikipedia
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